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Al-Anfal 8:38

قُل لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓاْ إِن يَنتَهُواْ يُغۡفَرۡ لَهُم مَّا قَدۡ سَلَفَ وَإِن يَعُودُواْ فَقَدۡ مَضَتۡ سُنَّتُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

Tell the disbelievers that if they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist, then they have an example in those destroyed before them.

Word by word

قُل
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِّلَّذِينَ
lilladhīna
to those who
Vocabulary
كَفَرُوٓاْ
kafarū
disbelieve
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
إِن
in
if
Vocabulary
يَنتَهُواْ
yantahū
they cease
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
يُغۡفَرۡ
yugh'far
will be forgiven
Vocabulary
Root: غفر
لَهُم
lahum
for them
Vocabulary
مَّا
mā
what
Vocabulary
قَدۡ
qad
[verily]
Vocabulary
سَلَفَ
salafa
(is) past
Vocabulary
Root: سلف
وَإِن
wa-in
But if
Vocabulary
يَعُودُواْ
yaʿūdū
they return
Vocabulary
Root: عود
فَقَدۡ
faqad
then verily
Vocabulary
مَضَتۡ
maḍat
preceded
Vocabulary
Root: مضي
سُنَّتُ
sunnatu
(the) practice
Vocabulary
Root: سنن
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) the former (people)
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.